Yeah, but what I meant was they took the 2.4 "version" of USB support and backported that to the 2.2.18 kernel. And you're right, though IMNSHO "completely hosed" is a slightly better description than "broken".
I bought an Acer P100 about six years ago, and still have it to this day. Granted, I had to swap out the HDD (for a bigger one), but OTT I've had no problems. It's running slack7 and being an intranet FTP server, and been up over 122 days!
I could see this being a problem using OSes with monolithic kernels; the reason NetBSD runs on so many platforms is that there are that many different kernels. With Linux, however, you have the flexibility of a modular kernel, so any special drivers required can be loaded by a "standard base" kernel.
I have to agree with the guy right above me. My case is the butt-ugliest thing you'd never want to see (grey and black design w/ beige CD-RW and black DVD drives, not to mention a floppy drive missing a faceplate altogether), but the SOB screams like a banshee w/ RAID5 and an o/c'd proc and vidcard. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of a plexiglass type case just to add that extra element of "badassery", but mine sits in a cabinet anyway, so who would see it?
Well, I used to work at Unisys as a network engineer (in presales and implementation), and I can't think of a single system that was done on time OR on budget. Shit, we spec-ed out an Exchange server for a 500user site, guaranteed availability. Two months after I left it took a shit and died. This was part of their ES "extended availability" line; maybe they should rename the boxen to BS. A nice PPro w/ slack and q-mail would have cost them about $3000, instead they dropped ~$50,000 (after installation services, etc.) and look where they are...
God bless Unisys and their tanking stock price!
I would have to agree. The Denon AVR3300 is the best receiver for the cost anywhere. An assload of inputs coupled with clean output. Check it out here.
For speakers, I would go B&W, but given your price range, some Bose 201/301s would suit you fine. Then, save up for a Velodyne sub that will blow out windows.
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Yeah, but what I meant was they took the 2.4 "version" of USB support and backported that to the 2.2.18 kernel. And you're right, though IMNSHO "completely hosed" is a slightly better description than "broken".
Of course, the same USB support is also available in the 2.2.18 kernel. Why they backwards-ported it I'll never know.
I bought an Acer P100 about six years ago, and still have it to this day. Granted, I had to swap out the HDD (for a bigger one), but OTT I've had no problems. It's running slack7 and being an intranet FTP server, and been up over 122 days!
I could see this being a problem using OSes with monolithic kernels; the reason NetBSD runs on so many platforms is that there are that many different kernels. With Linux, however, you have the flexibility of a modular kernel, so any special drivers required can be loaded by a "standard base" kernel.
I have to agree with the guy right above me. My case is the butt-ugliest thing you'd never want to see (grey and black design w/ beige CD-RW and black DVD drives, not to mention a floppy drive missing a faceplate altogether), but the SOB screams like a banshee w/ RAID5 and an o/c'd proc and vidcard. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of a plexiglass type case just to add that extra element of "badassery", but mine sits in a cabinet anyway, so who would see it?
Well, I used to work at Unisys as a network engineer (in presales and implementation), and I can't think of a single system that was done on time OR on budget. Shit, we spec-ed out an Exchange server for a 500user site, guaranteed availability. Two months after I left it took a shit and died. This was part of their ES "extended availability" line; maybe they should rename the boxen to BS. A nice PPro w/ slack and q-mail would have cost them about $3000, instead they dropped ~$50,000 (after installation services, etc.) and look where they are... God bless Unisys and their tanking stock price!
I would have to agree. The Denon AVR3300 is the best receiver for the cost anywhere. An assload of inputs coupled with clean output. Check it out here.
For speakers, I would go B&W, but given your price range, some Bose 201/301s would suit you fine. Then, save up for a Velodyne sub that will blow out windows.
Isn't the /proc filesystem created by the kernel? AFAIK, /proc/cpuinfo deals with this, not any distro-specific database...
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